Word: childlessness
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Slight, gentle Pediatrician Schick, 75, childless himself, has treated tens of thousands of children in Vienna and (since 1923) in New York City, still commutes by subway from his Manhattan home for office hours in Brooklyn. More than the medals he has received he treasures a thank-you book signed in 1933 by a million New York City schoolchildren. Yeshiva's new million-dollar department of pediatrics is to be named for Dr. Schick. His most enduring monument: the test which helps to save lives...
...Europe, aboard an Argentine Airlines DC-6, he sent her brother Juan Duarte and the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Héctor Cámpora. On arrival in Switzerland they were to transfer her international investments to the President's name. Under Argentine law, when a childless woman dies, all her property acquired after marriage must be divided between her parents and her husband. Duarte and Cámpora, however, carried with them-besides a power of attorney from Perón -a document signed by the president of the supreme court certifying that Evita...
Later that year, an SS man named Gustav Sirsch and his wife entered the story. Childless, they went to the SS orphanage, asked to adopt a boy. They were offered a dark-haired, blue-eyed youngster of two whom they liked at once. The people at the orphanage said he was the son of German parents. It was, in fact, Ivan...
...exactress who toured with Nazimova in War Brides during 1914-15, Nila is a childless widow in her late fifties. Her scripts, in which, as she says, "the good are very good and the bad get just what they deserve," come out flatly against racial prejudice, boom such worthy sentiments as honor and service in good causes. Her sound-effects men developed some wonderful sizzling and steaming noises when boiling oil was poured over Ali Baba's 40 thieves hiding in jars. Bluebeard gets his just deserts, too, but only by implication: "The kids are tickled to death when...
Paula (Columbia) works up a rich soap-opera lather over the problems of its heroine (Loretta Young). She runs down an orphan boy (Tommy Rettig) in her car, and the boy becomes mute as a result of the accident. Childless Paula adopts the boy and sets about teaching him to talk again, although she realizes that once he regains the power of speech he may identify her to the police as the hit-&-run driver. To complicate matters a bit more, the slightest scandal would ruin the chances of Paula's husband (Kent Smith) becoming dean of his college...